Remember, back in the day, before USB drives became common place, you had to use those weird square disks? We called them floppies, and they had about as much storage capacity as my current computer has in its power switch alone. One of the problems with floppy drives was that it was impossible to determine whether there was a floppy in the drive without actually spinning up the drive. Windows 95 almost had a feature that could detect whether or not there was a floppy in the drive without spinning it up.

Yes, I know we're all well past the days when Amiga users gloated at Windows users, but Amigas did have this feature from day one -- ie 1985.

The downside was that Amiga floppy drives made random clicking noises every now and then, which was (as Microsoft's engineers rightly surmised in this story) rather annoying. But it was still a good feature.

Yes I remember that's the first difference i noticed on Amiga 500 and Atari TT after a guy way asked to insert a new disk, I thought wow, that's a neat detail. Today after i close the CD-tray on my laptop it still takes Vista approx 9 sec to figure out there's nothing in there...ts ts ts ts :'(

There were utilities for the Amiga called "clickoff", "noclick" etc, which removed the clicking noise while leaving the disk detection feature intact. I never figured out how that was possible, or why Commodore didn't include it by default in later Amigas, or why it even clicked in the first place if that wasn't necessary.

Yes, I know we're all well past the days when Amiga users gloated at Windows users, but Amigas did have this feature from day one -- ie 1985.

The downside was that Amiga floppy drives made random clicking noises every now and then, which was (as Microsoft's engineers rightly surmised in this story) rather annoying. But it was still a good feature.

you obviously didnt have that lovely program in your startup-sequence, which made the click almost inaudible, while still working quite nice...